Finalist, Healthcare Trailblazer (organization), Columbus CEO s 2021 Healthcare Achievement Awards
Central Ohio Primary Care has been seeing patients since its founding in 1996 and has since grown to include over 80 practices that serve more than 450,000 patients. Most recently, COPC has employed new methods to deliver care following Covid-19, including telehealth visits.
At the rise of the pandemic, COPC’s care coordinators reached out to 4,500 of its highest risk patients to enroll them in telehealth visits. Additionally, a drive-up care program was developed for those with limited internet access, a service that allows patients to park at the facility and borrow an iPad for their appointments.
MedOne Why Not Home, finalist, Healthcare Trailblazer, Columbus CEO Healthcare Achievement Awards 2021
MedOne’s “Why Not Home” program, offered in all OhioHealth hospitals, offers an alternative for patients after their hospital stay. The physicians behind the program saw that the options post-release, which are to be sent home or to a continued-care facility, didn’t account for a gray area including patients who didn’t truly qualify for either. In that instance, patients are more likely to go to a facility, resulting in over-utilized resources.
Laura Newpoff
Dr. Patricia Gabbe, Healthcare Trailblazer, Columbus CEO Healthcare Achievement Awards 2021
After Gov. Ted Strickland was sworn in as Ohio governor in 2007, Dr. Patricia Gabbe was tapped to work with him and Mayor Andrew Ginther, then a Columbus city councilman, to address the region’s infant mortality crisis. A task force was assembled, a report was completed and then that report got filed away. “We can’t file that away. We’ve got to do something,” Gabbe thought.
The clinical professor of pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology at Ohio State University had an idea. She’d both help and learn from women in high-crime and high-poverty neighborhoods where infant mortality rates were five times higher than what they should be. Alongside Twinkle Schottke, an infant mental health specialist, Gabbe founded Moms2B in 2010 with a $48,000 grant from Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. It started out as a cooking program at a Black church in Weinland Park ne
Laura Newpoff
Big Lots Behavioral Health Pavilion, Nationwide Children s Hospital: Healthcare Trailblazer, Columbus CEO Healthcare Achievement Awards 2021
In 2013, Dr. David Axelson and his team at Nationwide Children’s Hospital received an invitation from the board to hear about whether the hospital was meeting the mental health needs of children. The board wanted the hospital to invest in this area to expand inpatient and outpatient services and build more research programming.
Axelson and the planning subcommittee got to work and came up with a proposal to substantially expand services. The board heard them out and encouraged them “to think bigger.”
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